different between ingest vs snootful

English

Etymology

From Latin inger? (“I carry in”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?d??st/
• Homophone: in jest
• Rhymes: -?st.

Verb

ingest (third-person singular simple present ingests, present participle ingesting, simple past and past participle ingested)

1. (transitive) To take a substance (e.g. food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
2. (transitive) To bring or import into a system.
   • 2013, R. L. Grossman, C. Kamath, P. Kegelmeyer, Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications (page 176)

     While this might seem like more than enough computing power for these purposes, the same machine is also used to ingest, archive and distribute TRMM data to the user community.

Usage notes

• Often used in labelling of chemical products. Common phrase: "Do not ingest", meaning "Do not take in / Do not swallow".

Hyponyms

• imbibe

Translations

Noun

ingest (uncountable)

1. The process of importing data or other material into a system.
   • 2007, Edmund A. Williams, National Association of Broadcasters Engineering Handbook

     Film is a physical, photochemical medium that requires a significant transformation process for ingest into the electronic/digital domain of television.

   • 2013, Michael Heaney, Catriona Jeanne Cannon, Transforming the Bodleian (page 78)

     Material received by the BSF for ingest into storage, and the items being picked and refilled, are all processed in an ancillary hall next to the high-density storage area.

Anagrams

• get-ins, signet, stinge, tinges

English

Etymology

snoot +? -ful

Pronunciation

• IPA: /?snu?tf?l/

Noun

snootful (plural snootfuls)

1. (informal) A noseful.
   • 1996, Gary Ferguson, The Yellowstone Wolves: The First Year :

     Suddenly the Soda Butte animals are getting great snootfuls of scent laid down over the past month by other wolves, which apparently leaves them with a certain longing for their own quiet, unsullied digs far to the northeast...
2. (informal) A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.
   • 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves, ch. 13:

     Only active measures, promptly applied, can provide this poor, pusillanimous poop with the proper pep. And that is why, Jeeves, I intend tomorrow to secure a bottle of gin and lace his luncheon orange juice with it liberally. . . . The truth of the matter being that he is just a plain, ordinary poop and needs a snootful as badly as ever man did.

   • 1963 Nov. 1, "Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly," Time:

     His bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night.

   • 1987 May 22, John Gross, "Books of the Times" (review of The Paris Edition by Waverley Root), New York Times (retrieved 1 Nov 2011):

     [H]e recalls most of his colleagues and their rough-and-tumble exploits. Spencer Bull, for instance, who was a good reporter with one weakness . . . "He lost the ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy when he had a snootful."

Derived terms

• have a snootful

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